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A group of protesters holding signs marches past a gated entrance on a sunny day.

Graduate Student Union Schedules Strike

The work stoppage will begin October 27, unless a final bargaining session next week yields an agreement.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Microscope examining Harvard Medical School building held by gloved hand, with stethoscope and Harvard shields.

Harvard Research on Hold

Funding freeze halts Harvard projects overnight.

by Nina Pasquini

University Hall

Encouraging Harvard to Resist

Alumni and faculty letters urge Harvard to defend itself and academic freedom.

by Max J. Krupnick

Graduates in caps and gowns smile while holding inflatable globes during an outdoor commencement ceremony.

Harvard Commencement and Alumni Events 2025

Harvard Commencement and Alumni Events 2025

by Nell Porter-Brown

Four students in a wood-paneled radio room with monitors and radio equipment, one wearing a Harvard sweatshirt.

Harvard Wireless club

Student ham enthusiasts turn back time.

by Max J. Krupnick

Salvador Litvak smiles, arms crossed, in a vest and hat on a city street.

Filmmaker Salvador Litvaks Jewish Movies

The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies

by Max J. Krupnick

Flock of sheep grazing and resting in a field with blooming trees and Mount Everett in the background

Shepherdess Mary Berle's Massachussetts Mountain Farm

A former educator takes on one last big project: sheep farming

by Nell Porter-Brown

Shirley Graham Du Bois in white blouse, photographed in profile, 1946.

Publications by Harvard Authors Spring 2025: New Releases

Operatic counterculture, a Passover graphic novel, James Joyce’s biographer, and more

Jessica Shand holds a flute, seated in a music lab.

Jessica Shand—Math and Music at Harvard

Jessica Shand blends math and music.

by Nina Pasquini

Man selects food from pie compartments in Eighth Avenue Automat, 1936.

The Sum of Our Choices

On the limitations of a prevailing worldview

Man sits outside "Golden Gate of Liberty" under sign that reads, "“Notice—communist, nihilist, socialist, Fenian & hoodlum welcome but no admittance to Chinamen.”

Chinese Immigrants in Early America

Michael Luo ’98 on the first great wave of immigration—and of nativist anti-immigrant reaction